A national landfill methane budget for Sweden based on field measurements, and an evaluation of IPCC models
Journal article, 2009

Seven Swedish landfills were investigated from 2001 to 2003. On each landfill, a measure of the total methane production was calculated from data on: (1) methane emissions (leakage); (2) methane oxidation and (3) from gas recovery. Methane emissions were determined via a tracer gas (N2O) release-based remote sensing method. N2O and CH4 were measured with an Fourier Transform infrared detector at a distance of more than 1 km downwind from the landfills. Methane oxidation in the landfill covers was measured with the stable carbon isotope method. The efficiency in gas recovery systems proved to be highly variable, but on an average, 51% of the produced landfill gas was captured. A first-order decay model, based on four fractions (waste from households and parks, sludges and industrial waste), showed that the use of a degradable organic carbon fraction (DOCf) value of 0.54, in accordance with the default value for DOCf of 0.50 in the latest IPCC model, gave an emission estimate similar to the official national reports.

soil

isotope technique

gas

emissions

oxidation

atmospheric tracer methods

fluxes

Author

G. Borjesson

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)

Jerker Samuelsson

Chalmers, Department of Radio and Space Science, Optical Remote Sensing

J. Chanton

Florida State University

R. Adolfsson

Statistics Sweden

Swedish National Labour Market Board

Bo Galle

Chalmers, Department of Radio and Space Science, Optical Remote Sensing

B. H. Svensson

Linköping University

Tellus, Series B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology

0280-6509 (ISSN) 1600-0889 (eISSN)

Vol. 61 2 424-435

Subject Categories

Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences

DOI

10.1111/j.1600-0889.2008.00409.x

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